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A person in a dark blue shirt and black pants sits with knees drawn up, one hand near the chest, against a metallic background with yellow text.

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A person in a dark blue shirt and black pants sits with knees drawn up, one hand near the chest, against a metallic background with yellow text.

A person in a dark blue shirt and black pants sits with knees drawn up, one hand near the chest, against a metallic background with yellow text. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • right side grayed out in one frame

Animation Summary

  • The right side of the image is grayed out in one frame while the rest of the scene remains unchanged.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text at bottom left

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt with a white symbol on the chest and black pants, sitting with knees drawn up and one hand near the chest. The background features a metallic, cylindrical shape with a gradient from silver to white. Yellow text reading "BieberW" appears at the bottom left. The image is part of an animated sequence where the right side of the image is grayed out in one frame. The person's expression is neutral, and the overall style is pixelated with a retro aesthetic.

Description

A person in a dark blue shirt and black pants sits with knees drawn up, one hand near the chest, against a metallic background with yellow text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200911181603541790103979
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair dark blue shirt
  • BieberW text
  • metallic background
  • grayed out right side
  • pixelated style
  • hand near chest
  • knees drawn up
  • neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a grid layout with multiple views of the same subject

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • BieberW

Visually Supported Entities

  • BieberW

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • dark blue shirt
  • white symbol
  • black pants
  • knees drawn up
  • hand near chest
  • metallic background
  • yellow text
  • BieberW
  • grayed out right side
  • neutral expression
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911181603541790103979
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/5272eacc1bb6be5c9c1e91d645bd94a6d68dd8bcdf69237500b9e04dfb60da36.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
5272eacc1bb6be5c
SHA-256
5272eacc1bb6be5c9c1e91d645bd94a6d68dd8bcdf69237500b9e04dfb60da36
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083161

OpenAI category scores

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A person in a dark blue shirt and black pants sits with knees drawn up, one hand near the chest, against a metallic background with yellow text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,196 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 867

Review tags

  • hand near chest (action, 0.80)
  • sitting (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • metallic background (object, 0.80)
  • yellow text (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • sitting
  • hand near chest

Animation

  • right side grayed out in one frame

Animation Summary

  • The right side of the image is grayed out in one frame while the rest of the scene remains unchanged.

Colors

  • brown
  • dark blue
  • white
  • black
  • silver
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text at bottom left

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with brown hair wearing a dark blue shirt with a white symbol on the chest and black pants, sitting with knees drawn up and one hand near the chest. The background features a metallic, cylindrical shape with a gradient from silver to white. Yellow text reading "BieberW" appears at the bottom left. The image is part of an animated sequence where the right side of the image is grayed out in one frame. The person's expression is neutral, and the overall style is pixelated with a retro aesthetic.

Description

A person in a dark blue shirt and black pants sits with knees drawn up, one hand near the chest, against a metallic background with yellow text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200911181603541790103979
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person brown hair dark blue shirt
  • BieberW text
  • metallic background
  • grayed out right side
  • pixelated style
  • hand near chest
  • knees drawn up
  • neutral expression

Objects

  • metallic background
  • yellow text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a grid layout with multiple views of the same subject

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • BieberW

Visually Supported Entities

  • BieberW

Wordwall

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  • dark blue shirt
  • white symbol
  • black pants
  • knees drawn up
  • hand near chest
  • metallic background
  • yellow text
  • BieberW
  • grayed out right side
  • neutral expression
  • pixelated style
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200911181603541790103979
Archive entry
200911181603541790103979.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911181603541790103979.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911181603541790103979.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016